Artistic intervention “Corpus alienum” reflects on Slovak socialist past and today’s attitude of the society towards it. The key object of the project is the plaster statue of Lenin which comes from the period when the building of Pisztory Palace was a seat of the Lenin’s Museum. Two loudspeakers are installed inside the statue. During the public presentation the figure of Lenin is “brought to life” through the audio collage composed of various sounds of manual work and fragmentary dialogues of two workers.

artistsMaja Štefančíková, Nóra Ružičková, Adam Novota
placePisztoryho palác
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castNóra Ružičková
cameraMaja Štefančíková
soundMaja Štefančíková, Peter Barényi
editingMaja Štefančíková
interviewPeter Barényi
translationMichaela Wickleinová
categoryReports
published6. 3. 2014
languageČesky / English
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Corpus Alienum
It was a bizarre spectacle based on the lack of artistic talent of the main actors who were staging awkward aesthetics of clumsiness they found in themselves or models such as Stalin, Hitler, Miki Volek (a Czech rock'n'roll singer), Gary Glitter, The Olympic music group. Czech pop music and TV shows, our parents, Czech art historians, poets and many others. Anyone could become an object of ridicule and disgrace.